"The SanDisk 2.5-inch SSD brings the extreme
durability, outstanding performance and low power consumption of solid-state
flash memory to the entire notebook computer market," said SanDisk VP Amos
Marom. "As SanDisk continues to drive innovation in flash memory, the
per-gigabyte price of SSD storage will come down and SSD capacity will go up.
PC manufacturers and consumers will find it easier and easier to move away from
rotating hard disks to the superior experience of SSDs."

The 2.5" version of the drive is slightly faster than
its 1.8" sibling. It features sustained reads of 67MB/sec, has an average
access speed of 0.11 milliseconds and can boot Windows Vista Enterprise in 30
seconds. This compares to 62MB/sec, 0.12 milliseconds and 35 seconds respectively
for the 1.8" drive.

The 32GB 2.5" SSD SATA 5000 is available now for
systems builders and is priced at $350 each for volume orders.

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Except that DDR and DDR2 are volatile which makes them pretty much useless for this type of application. Dont expect these drives to be faster than HDD's anytime soon (in terms of data transfer speed).

Not faster than hard drives anytime soon? I submit that 62MB/s sustained over the entire drive IS faster than nearly all current hard drives. Some may have higher rates in the outer edge of the platter, but as an average of outer and inner, I'd bet few can sustain much more than 62 MB/s. Then factor in ultra low seek time and any fragmentation and these look faster.

What's the point for desktop? your DVD drive is almost 6 inches wide, so the PC isn't gonna really get any smaller, but you would have less capacity in your hard drive, is that what you really want?

You might want to start by using a 3.5 inches removable storage drive, that would make a difference, anyway with high density disc like holographic storage, it's the right time to change the size since you would still gain allot of storage space with a smaller disc.

The 62MB/s speed is very suspicious, that it coincides with a realizable throughput over ATA66 technology. This leads one to wonder if either:

A) The flash could've done more if it wasn't ATA66 tech kludged to an SATA output.

B) It's not really 62MB/s, it would be akind to saying USB2 has 480Mbit/s sustained *on paper*.

The real question is not one of whether it's 62MB/s though, we can't really expect that to matter much because to realize much difference isolated from other system bottlenecks it would depend on very large files with limited processing, a target application where 32GB is still a bit limiting and in other apps, that $300 price premium over a mechnical 32+GB HDD buys a lot of DDR2/3 memory which for caching purposes on smaller files, still destroys it performancewise. Remember that the best performance from any hard drive is to not use it, no matter solid-state or mechanical it's still the bottleneck to many tasks if any file is read more than once per system power cycle.